Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BattyBot 29

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Operator: GoingBatty (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 20:03, Sunday May 4, 2014 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AutoWikiBrowser

Source code available: AWB

Function overview: Fix incorrect wikilinks in the |genre= parameter of music-related infoboxes

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): Occasionally

Estimated number of pages affected: Hundreds

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: In the |genre= parameter of music-related infoboxes, fix incorrect wikilinks such as [[country]] to [[country music|country]] or [[metal]] to [[heavy metal music|metal]] (e.g. this edit). It will also perform any additional AWB general fixes.

Infoboxes to be changed include: {{Infobox album}}, {{Infobox ESC entry}}, {{Infobox music festival}}, {{Infobox musical artist}}, {{Infobox single}}, {{Infobox song}}

Incorrect wikilinks to be changed include: Acoustic, Bluegrass, Classical, Country, Dance, Electro, Experimental, Folk, Gospel, Grind, Heavy metal, House, Latin, Metal, Noise, Pop, Punk, Rock, Salsa, Soul, Trance, World (other suggestions welcome)

Discussion

Will there be any criteria to avoid ambiguous genre names (e.g., if I meant power metal instead of heavy metal)? MBisanz ^talk 02:16, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

@MBisanz: Yes, I wouldn't change Progressive to Progressive music, as they are both disambiguation pages. However, after reading Metal (disambiguation) (which says "Heavy metal music, often referred to simply as 'metal'") and the lead of Heavy metal music (which says "Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music...") I still believe it's an improvement to change [[Metal]] to [[Heavy metal music|Metal]], even though there are many heavy metal subgenres. Even the Heavy metal subgenres article says "heavy metal (often shortened to metal)". However, if consensus is this bot should not change Metal, then I will abide by that consensus. Thanks for asking! GoingBatty (talk) 02:15, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

I don't know enough about music to have an informed opinion, but maybe ask a wikiproject or two to see their thoughts? MBisanz ^talk 18:32, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Music#Request for comments on bot approval discussion and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Metal#Request for comments on bot approval_discussion. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 19:22, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

Seems fine to me. If an editor intended a more specific genre of metal, they'll see this edit on their watchlist and go and correct the change to whatever they specifically meant. MrMoustacheMM (talk) 20:26, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

@MBisanz: {{BAG assistance needed}} Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 00:51, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

Approved for trial (20 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. MBisanz ^talk 23:44, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

Trial complete. - see these diffs. I added a few more wikilinks to fix to the list above. GoingBatty (talk) 23:29, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

Trial looks good. A few things:

• This edit caught my attention. You didn't touch hardcore, but you would have if it was in your list, which would've left an undesirable result. I think you should avoid changing links if they're followed by {{dn}}, which implies someone has looked at it and judged it to be difficult to replace without some human analysis. I can see this maybe happening with metal, but in general it might be rare enough to ignore (given your relatively unambiguous replacements).
• What if the link is to a section? Look at this before my edit. Should the bot recognize this and fix it, or ignore links of that form?
• Finally, some suggestions for additional genres, derived from transclusions of {{Infobox music genre}}. Not all of these are used in infoboxes, but they might be in the future. I checked over most of them but you might want to look more carefully before you add them (if at all).

— Earwig ^talk 18:42, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

@The Earwig: Thanks for your detailed reply! In response:

• I specifically did not and will not add Hardcore to my list because a human needs to determine if the right link is Hardcore punk, Hardcore techno, or Hardcore hip hop
• For now, the bot ignores links if they have links to sections. However, it's an interesting idea that would require further analysis.
• Thanks for the great list! Most of your suggestions look good, but I think it would be safer not to change those with multiple music genres on the disambiguation page, such as New Wave, Swing, and Dub.

Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 01:13, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

@The Earwig: {{BAG assistance needed}} GoingBatty (talk) 19:53, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Sorry, I was waiting for some additional input. Seeing as the trial was fine, I'm going to go ahead and say  Approved. Feel free to add new genres at your discretion. — Earwig ^talk 22:56, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at WT:BRFA.